Mitchell Center/PPU Debates

THE PENN POLITICAL UNION (PPU) is an undergraduate organization formed in 2014 that features parliamentary-style deliberation on urgent contemporary issues. To represent a wide spectrum of political opinion, students are members of five different political parties: libertarian, conservative, independent, liberal, and progressive.

Beginning in 2017-18, The Andrea Mitchell Center is proud to sponsor the PPU debates, now expanded to include events featuring prominent public figures from journalism, politics, public policy, and academia. As with all Mitchell Center events, the PPU debates are open to the public and there will usually be opportunity for active participation in the discussion by members of the audience not affiliated with one of the five parties.

POSTPONED DUE TO EAGLES PARADE

JOIN THE PENN POLITICAL UNION and guest debater DAVID BOAZ (Cato Institute) as its five political parties debate the resolution, “U.S. states should enact education reform centered around school choice.”

JOIN THE PENN POLITICAL UNION as we debate the following resolution: "The United States of America cannot allow North Korea to develop a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), even if that means taking military action.”

IN THE FIRST OF AN ONGOING SERIES, the Mitchell Center and the Penn Political Union present journalist Michael Smerconish to get a debate started over the role of the media in the political polarization of the America.

Join the Penn Political Union and guest JOHN LOTT (The Crime Prevention Research Center) as they debate the resolution, “In order to prevent mass public shootings, the United States should more heavily regulate firearm ownership.”